Railway-crossing



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RAILWAY CROSSING.

No. 403,060. Patented May 7, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN B. MORGAN, OF ANN ARBOR, ASSIGN OR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO HENRY P.GLOVER, ENOOH O. BOWLING, AND EDWARD R. E. OOWELL,

ALL OF YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

RAILWAY-CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,060, dated May *7,1889.

Application filed October 23, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN BMoRcAN, of Ann Arbor, in the county ofVVashtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Railway-Crossings, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in an improvement in railway-crossings,hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The figures are both plan views.

H H and I I represent the rails of two intersecting railwaytracks, therails of each track being broken at their intersections.

13 represents a sliding plate set in a suitable bed-plate and longenough to reach diagonally across the crossing, and carrying thereon tworail-sections, F F, adapted to complete the rails I, and tworail-sections, G G, adapted to complete the rails H H. O and D representtwo similar but shorter plates, one of which is located at each of theother intersections of the rails II I, and each of these shorter platescarries two rail sections, F and G, adapted to complete the rails I andH, respectively.

The long plate B and the two shorter plates, C and D, may be connectedtogether, so as to be moved simultaneously from a single point in anumber of ways, some being illustrated 0 in the drawings, or they may bemoved separately, as shall be found more convenient.

Serial No. 288-916. (No model.)

In Figure 1 the central plate, B, is connected by a pitman, L, with onearm of the bellcrank lever A, which is moved by any ordinary switchmechanism, and the plates D and 3 5 O are connected by pitm en L withsimilar bell-crank levers, A and A the other arms of which levers areconnected by pitmen M M with the other arm of bell-crank lever A, sothat when lever A is moved its motion is com- 40 municated to levers Aand A and the plates B, O, andD are moved simultaneously; or the threepitmen L may be connected bya crossbar, E, (shown in dotted lines inFig. 1,) whereby the levers A and A may be dispensed with and the platesB, O, and D all moved directly from the lever A. As shown in Fig. 2, theplates 0 and D are connected directly with the plate B by the cross-barE.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In a railway-crossing, the combination of the tracks H and I, broken attheir intersections, with the movable plate 13, carrying the fourrail-sections F F and G G, and the movable plates 0 D, each carrying tworail-sections, F G, substantially as shown and described. I

BENJAMIN B. MORGAN.

WVitnesses:

J. M. WILLooXsoN, WM. G. DOTY.

